Q : What is the Islamic point of view when it comes to organ donation?
A : Organ donation is a great charity and the Qur’an states that “whoever causes a soul to live, it would be as though he saved all humanity”. But of course, various rules and laws should regulate the procedure in order to keep it within the context of the shari’a.
Of course, one recent aspect in this issue is the redefinition of the moment of death. The overwhelming majority of jurists have accepted the definite death of the brainstem to be death. Therefore, at that moment, you can use the other organs or tissues that have not died yet individually, such as the heart and the liver. In this case, heart transplantation can be done if you can get the living heart during the window of time after the patient died but before the heart died.
